Sluggishly progressing schizophrenia
Sluggishly progressing schizophrenia or sluggish schizophrenia was a category of schizophrenia diagnosed by psychiatrists in the Soviet Union.[attribution needed] At the time, Western psychiatry
recognized only four types of schizophrenia: catatonic, hebephrenic, paranoid, and simple. The diagnostic criteria
for this fifth category were so vague that it could be applied to virtually any person not suffering from mental function
impairment and having interests beyond survival needs.[attribution needed] The diagnosis was sometimes
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in fact mentally ill, so that they could be forcibly hospitalized in mental institutions and subjected to treatments including powerful antidepressants and electroconvulsive therapy.
The New York Times was accused of continuing to recycle a decades old story in a "continuing trend of repetition".[1]
The existence of this diagnosis has led to questions on the part of supporters of anti-psychiatry about the existence of schizophrenia in general, about whether it is diagnosed properly, and about political misuses of the schizophrenia diagnosis in the West.[vague]
References
- ^ Advances in the History of Psychology: “Punitive psychiatry” still practiced in Russia?
External links
- Soviet archives, collected by Vladimir Bukovsky.
- And the Wind Returns, 1978 (И возвращается ветер, in Russian)
See also
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